Harry Potter author JK Rowling has apologized over her scathing comments about US President Donald Trump's meeting with a disabled child - but not to the tycoon himself.

Rowling took to Twitter to savage the US leader on Monday, alleging he had ignored a small disabled boy who tried to shake hands with him during a visit to the White House.

Full footage of the incident was later released which exonerated the president and showed he interacted with the boy.

"How stunning, and how horrible, that Trump cannot bring himself to shake the hand of a small boy who only wanted to touch the president," Rowling had tweeted.

On Tuesday, she returned to social media to acknowledge she had misfired, but stopped short of apologizing to the president.

"Re: my tweets about the small boy in a wheelchair whose proffered hand the president appeared to ignore in press footage.

"Multiple sources have informed me that that was not a full or accurate representation of their interaction.

"I very clearly projected my own sensitivities around the issue of disabled people being overlooked or ignored onto the images I saw and if that caused any distress to that boy or his family, I apologize unreservedly."

The boy's mother had criticized Rowling for her comments, saying: "If someone can please get a message to JK Rowling: Trump didn't snub my son & Monty wasn't even trying to shake his hand."

Reader Comments

An interesting article. As human beings, we routinely form our view of "reality" with our own preconceived ideas and emotions. Ms. Rowling has preconceived ideas and subsequent emotions when considering Pres. Trump but has erroneously drawn false conclusions which did not accord with "the reality" of the situation. Strange that she didn't retract or apologize and learn a lesson. Of course, as the "Quote of the Day" says about Authoritarian Followers: "They will also willingly engage themselves in the same lying, cheating, stealing and murder if it is presented to them as necessary to protect their status quo."

Rowling has always had this problem... must be basic programming, very passive SJW type, has always shown this same lack of intelligence in her political statements... she 'knows not what she does'... I could be wrong, but I don't think she's acting this stupid on purpose... it's just a reflex action on her part... being rich and famous does make the ignorant 'voices of the people'... and serves the PTB's purpose rather well, like Bono et al.

"The process 3-1-2 means the triad in which the third force comes first, followed by first force, resulting in second force. In Rodney Collin's useful terminology, it is described as the sequence form-life-matter: Form, applied to life, reduces it to matter. In its negative aspect, this is sometimes called the process of crime, or the process of corruption. An example is the work of a virus. The virus represents form, or the third force, and it acts on life, the first force, reducing it to matter, the second force. Third force always stands between second and first force in its "density of vibrations", or intelligence. The virus is not alive, but hijacks the living, leaving dead matter in its wake.

Another example of the negative side of this process 3-1-2 is formatory thinking. Formatory thinking occurs when a pre-existing thought-form is applied to thought, essentially destroying the living process of thinking by forcing it to fit into the pre-existing form, which results in some lifeless result, for example, a slogan. In technical language, formatory thought occurs when the mechanical part of the intellectual center overrides the work of the intellectual part of the intellectual center. This is wrong work of centers, in this case, parts of centers. Right work of the mechanical part of the intellectual center is to return stored data, such as the response to the question "What is 2 + 2?". It should not respond to questions such as "What do you think of this idea?", or anything that one should think about."

Highland Fleet Lute Very interesting comment HFL! Regarding the intellectual centre, and its various parts, you have to wonder what so called education does to the intellectual centre? The GIGO mode of what passes for education, maybe not only overrides, but perhaps the mechanical part expands, shrinking the intellectual/intellectual section of the thinking centre, and the intellectual/emotional as well? As i understand this, the emotional centre is in even worse "shape' usually.